Episode 354: Q&A Office Hours with Fizzle Member Sue McLeod

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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https://fizzleshow.co – In today's Q&A episode, we start by interviewing Sue McLeod, of suemcleodceramics.com. Sue has built a successful online education business teaching ceramic artists how to apply advanced glazing techniques. We also cover questions from Fizzle Members including how to sell when your audience doesn't have much money, and how to partner with a former employer on your new product.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Fizzle show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our podcast
0:07.6	about earning a living independently doing something you love. And today we have a special type of
0:13.1	episode for you. This is office hours featuring live questions from Fizzle members who are
0:18.9	attending with us. And we also have a special guest
0:22.0	today who I'll get to in just one moment, but also I want to say hello to Jen Rayau from the Fizzle team.
0:27.6	Hey, Jen.
0:28.7	Hey, Corbin. How's it going? Great. Happy you're here today, uh, all the way from India, which is
0:34.5	pretty cool. Maybe we can talk about that in a little bit. And also,
0:37.8	our special guest today is Fizzle member and a successful business owner, which we're going to
0:43.6	get to in just a second, Sue McCloud from Sue MacLeodceramics.com. Hi, Sue. How are you?
0:50.9	I'm really good. So glad to be here. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here today. We wanted to
0:56.5	have you on because you have had some success with some launches of products recently, but also
1:04.3	I wanted to chat with you because you have a really interesting business. A lot of people
1:10.2	ask, how can I become a successful artist? And I
1:16.5	think you have found a very interesting way of doing that. I know the art space fairly well because
1:22.1	my wife, Jesselin, is a professional painter. She has been doing that for quite some time. And she tends to just make
1:30.1	work in her studio and, you know, look for places to show that work. You have done that and more.
1:36.1	So tell us about your ceramics background and a little bit about what you do.
1:43.5	Okay. Well, I got started in ceramics in 2008, and I went to art school in Nelson, British Columbia,
1:54.3	where I did a two-year diploma program in clay.
1:59.6	And so that's where I first learned how to work with clay. But in our second
2:06.6	year of school, we started learning how to mix our own glazes. And so the glazes are, it's like a
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